Slipware pottery circular dish with figure of a Highwayman on Horse back, Staffordshire

Circular shape slipware earthenware dish press molded with a figure on horseback brandishing a musket and sword enhanced with dark brown and chestnut slip against a cream colored ground. The formal rouletted border inside the pie crust rim is an added decorative feature of this exceptionally rare and stunning example of English slipware.

Unrestored, with some surface wear commensurate with age

Ex Rous Lench Collection.
Ex Longridge Collection

Exhibited at the Merchants House located in Marlborough England 2011-2018

Similar dish illustrated in Rackham's catalog of the famous Glaisyer Collection.
This dish is featured in Leslie Grigsby's The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.